News of Addictions

My name is Mackenzie, and I am not trying to sell anyone anything, I am simply here because I myself am an addict, and am devoting my life to trying to get those help.

I work for a non profit group called recovery society and we help addicts get placed into treatment centers. We work with those who have health insurance and those who do not; but more importantly we are trying to let people ...

i really hate to admit this and it is the first time i am ever admitting this but I am pretty sure I'm addicted to splenda. I prob go through 100 packets a week. In my coffee it is 2 packets but i seem to dip alt of my food in it. For example when I'm eating pretzels i pour a packet into my hand and dip it onto the pretzel. i guess i like ...

I constantly eat late at night ranging from 11-2am and i am just sitting around doing nothing when i should be sleeping because I am so tired. I am a student, 22, who is recovering from bulimia and I get up every morning at 8:30 and I am fine though out the day but wheneverI am in my apartment and the food is there i constantly eat whether I am hungry or not. I have ...

I've been completely sober from alcohol for 6 years. While I was drinking; I was co-addicted to vlts. Now that I am sober the vlt thing had been taking over. I find that I can alleviate this by colecting things that I like (in my case small cheap antique type things). My concern is that I might become a horder. Is collecting an addiction? I feel good after buying something for myself...is this a healthy ...

Hi everyone, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Helen and I would love to tell you my story so that I can learn more about other people's experiences with internet addiction, depersonalisation, dissociation and impulse control and what other people make of my symptoms... :o

Before all this came about, I used to live a whole and content life. Up until the age of ...

Ive never seen this section!

Its an interesting idea; Am I addicted to the internet. Im not sure! It seems so normal to crawl in here and hide. I never saw it as an addiction. I saw it as a safe place to communicate without attack or notice by others.

I haven't had a life! Ive had dissociative disorder! I was not mentally home! having the internet is all I had. Im not sure if ...

Don't get me wrong, I love the internet! I use it for many things, from paying bills, booking vacations, social media, to watching my favorite movies/TV shows and downloading music...Don't we all? Well maybe that is precisely the problem!! We have become "dependent" on the internet, which is magnified if you are under 30 years old, however even those in their 40s-80s and beyond, can be impacted!

Lets face it, the internet is it's "own ...

My roomate recently overdosed on 160mg of adderall XR. His hands, feet, and face turned bright red. Shortness of breath, hallucinations, panic, the whole nine yards! After about 12 hrs he was able to sleep. He woke up 3 hrs later and thought it was over. He felt fine for a couple hours and it all started again. The same symptoms repeated for another twelve hours. Again, the symptoms have diminished other than him being ...

I'm having intrusive thoughts because of porn addiction. They aren't that frequent, but they're enough to know that I don't want to have them at all. (I'm currently in a recovering process) But I want to know... Is it possible to have gay thoughts that I would consider intrusions? Can porn do that to you? That means I'm not really gay, right? After all I don't feel that way, but I should recover from PA ...

I have been a user of heroin for a couple years now. Lost mostly everything in my life from jobs to partners cause of my addiction. Any advice from others that have had any similar experiences with this addiction. I try listening to music or keep active by painting , I also came across this song that I could relate to *link removed by moderator*